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Welcome to the last of our three-part interview with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author.
In this session, Gerry discusses numerous tips for Bridge cruise teachers/directors that he has learned over the years. Learn the importance of reading the students, avoid the tendency to become blindsighted by focusing on bright students, capitalizing on your personality, etc. Gerry’s lessons are tailored for the average social Bridge player, particularly those on the high seas. Gerry’s Bridge books (order via phone at 707-252-1257 or EMAIL gfoxbridge@aol.com):
Partnership Bridge - An Easy Guide to Standard American Bidding
Partnership Defence - An Easy Guide to Defender’s Play at Contract Bridge
Tricks for the Taking - An Easy Guide to Declarer’s Play at Contract Bridge
Contract Bridge in 28 Lessons - A Manual for Teachers
Bridge in Brief - A Shortcut Through the Rules of Bidding (With Opening Leads, Too)
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Welcome back to the second of our three-part interview with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author.
In our second session, Gerry continues discussing the importance of partnership harmony and trust, why bidding is easier to learn than play (especially count signals), why students often go wrong learning conventions, Gerry creation - The Rule of Seven, overcoming newcomers fear opening Notrump with a worthless doubleton, how teachers ears can make a big difference, the future of Bridge, Gerry discusses his Bridge books (order via phone at 707-252-1257 or EMAIL gfoxbridge@aol.com):
Partnership Bridge - An Easy Guide to Standard American Bidding
Partnership Defence - An Easy Guide to Defender’s Play at Contract Bridge
Tricks for the Taking - An Easy Guide to Declarer’s Play at Contract Bridge
Contract Bridge in 28 Lessons - A Manual for Teachers
Bridge in Brief - A Shortcut Through the Rules of Bidding (With Opening Leads, Too)
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We are delighted to offer BridgeHands listeners a three interview sessions with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author.
In our first session, Gerry shares wonderful stories about how to deal with Bridge teacher-student misunderstandings, difficult Bridge concepts and methods to make breakthroughs, converting a challenging student to “staight man”, counteracting crafty duplicate Bridge players, the importance of partnership harmony and trust, and benefits of understanding versus memorization.
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Jude is the web-mistress of the premiere www.GreatBridgeLinks.com website and leading Bridge cartoonist. However, her successes haven’t slowed her down - she’s recently launched www.GiftsForCardPlayers.com and written “Go Ahead, Laugh!“ We invite you to listen to her interview. Double-click right arrow to play (move slider to advance/rewind)
00-03: Introduction
03-07: Welcome Jude 07-09: Genesis of GreatBridgeLinks 09-13: GreatBridgeLinks site organization and features 13-16: GreatBridgeLinks business model (love of Bridge) 16-22: New book, “Go Ahead, Laugh!” 22-30: New website, www.GiftsForCardPlayers.com 30-34: Jude’s vision of Bridge 34-36: Jude’s love of the game 36-37: Being a good partner 37-39: Bridge Buzz – Honolulu NABC Tourney 39-45: Outtakes
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In episode #3, we conclude our delightful interview with Eddie Kantar
Minute: Topic
0-3: Introductions
3: Teaser - Great Bridge Links with Jude Goodwin
4: Eddie’s critique playing online with Yvonne
5: How Pros help clients win
6: Being a good partner
10: Adventures playing with Marshall Miles
15: Coauthoring books
17: Books, large and small
18: Computer-based instructions
21: Evolutions in bidding philosophy
26: Avoiding excessive conventions
29: Fast Eddie at table tennis
31: Money Bridge
32: Online Bridge Play
36: www.KantarBridge.com
38: Everyone loves Yvonne Kantar
40: Closing joke and the world’s best game
42: Dear Dummy - “Kantar 2 Notrump over a minor”
49: Crystal gets her wish Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
Eddie is a professional bridge player, writer, teacher and member of the Bridge Hall of Fame. He won two World Championships and thirteen North American Championship titles. Eddie writes regularly for numerous bridge magazines around the world and is a frequent host on bridge cruises.
On our premiere episode, founder Michael Nistler discusses Bridge media in yester year and explains the future of BridgeHands audiocast interviews in the Bridge industry .
We have a few entertaining “virtual” guests to chat about how bridge blogs, podcasts, websites, EMAIL newsletters, and aggregation software (like iTunes) interrelate to one another. Stay tuned for future interviews with Bridge professionals, duplicate directors, organizations, businesses, authors, teachers, players.
BridgeHands Interview
Introduction: Minute 0 - 2
Hal gets whacky: Minute 3
Interview Format and Target Audience: Minute 4
Interview Benefit: Minute 5
Interview Journalistic Type: Minute 6
Interview Benefit to Listener: Minute 7
Multi-media Bridge History: Minute 8
Why no Bridge Media Today: Minute 11
Internet Multi-media Bridge Opportunity: Minute 12
Michael Nistler’s Bridge Background: Minute 13
BridgeHands is Born: Minute 14
BridgeHands Website Layout: Minute 15
BridgeHands eMag EMAIL Newsletter: Minute 17
How BridgeHands help with Education: Minute 19
BridgeHands Blogs: Minute 20
BridgeHands and ”web 2.0″: Minute 21
BridgeHands Blog Categories: Minute 22
What is Podcasting: Minute 24
How iTunes and Aggregators Manage Subscriptions: Minute 25
BridgeBuzz - Baron Barclay acquires ACLB Product Store : Minute 27
DearDummy - How to contact BridgeHands: Minute 29
Outtake Revokes: Minute 31
Music and Galicticast Credits: Minute 32
Issue #10 completes our segment on the Street Smart Bridge Player. It has been a dark winter outside so perhaps it’s fitting we wrap up this segment by examining the dark side of Bridge. No, this issue isn’t intended to give players tips on how to pull off dishonest acts at the Bridge table! Yet we should all be aware of common situations that constitute the ethical violations for the proprieties of Bridge. Perhaps our partner has unwittingly encroached on the Bridge Laws. Or worse, maybe an unscrupulous opponent is deliberately cheating and trying to get away with the caper. Become a subscriber and learn more about inadvertent Laws violations, soft and hard cheating. Older copies of our newsletters are available in our archive.
Issue #9 of our Intermediate-Advanced Newsletter delves into the Laws of Bridge. We begin with a survey of how the Laws are structured and quickly move into the most important Laws from a competitive player’s perspective including Unauthorized Information, Mis-Information, Changes of Calls, Insufficient Bids, Partnership Agreements, Played Cards, Incomplete Dummy Calls, Lead Out Of Turn, Revoke Establishment, Communication and Partnership Agreements. We then dig into lots of details and wrap-up with helpful guidelines on etiquette. If you haven’t already subscribed to our “no strings attached” newsletter, we encourage you to sign up now and check out our prior newsletters here.
Issue #8 of our Intermediate-Advanced Newsletter continued the saga of our Street Smart Bridge Player. In issue #7, we began by exploring the technical aspects of the game, including numerous links to Bridge conventions and signaling; we concluded with a review of the psychological aspects of Bridge, including Marty Bergen’s 21 rules to become a good partner in “Points Schmoints,“ S. J. Simon’s book “Why You Lose at Bridge,“ psyches (also see our prior newsletter 5 and 6). In part two, we get into esoteric factor such as seating assignments, active and passive bidding, player’s tempo/timing/hesitations/tells, chesting cards, reacting to opponents, positive emotional attitude, and more.
You’ll find each day the Bulletin features a different professional speak about their ideas on bidding over opponents’ 1 Notrump opening bid, offering insights on various bidding philosophies. —————————————————–
The San Francisco NABC Daily Bulletins and Results are now available:
In Issue #12 of our Newcomer-Novice BridgeHands eMagazine Newsletter, we will continue our multi-part discussion devoted to preemptive bidding. As you will recall, the speculative nature of preemptive opening calls can lead to “creative” bidding. Better said, one person’s garbage is another person’s treasure! In our last issue, we covered hand evaluation methods helpful to make sound opening bids. After all, if our preemptive opening bids are completely undisciplined, our poor partner is definitely against the odds facing a:
So our success making preemptive responses is built on opener’s proverbial house of cards. In this lesson we will cover typical responder scenarios:
